Experiment 15: Ho Hum.

My name is Craig Morrin. I have been building meditation pyramids for over two decades now, and I have decided to embark upon the crazy and most dubious quest to do something that has never been done, ever before: to prove through scientific experiments that pyramid energy actually exists. Subscribe and follow me every step of the way on my rise to eternal pyramid glory...or falling flat on my face.

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Spoiler alert: The results from this experiment were not that interesting. But with no fault to the pyramids. The fault is on me. Or more accurately, I learned yet something else about what not to do in an experiment.

Let me explain...

10-28-25:

So I was quite excited about starting this experiment and testing the weights at the end with my scale that had an accuracy to less than 1/100th of a gram. I poked 19 holes each in six clear PLA plastic cups...

...and printed out on my 3D printer drainage plates so they all drained properly:

I then nested each holey (not the religious kind) cup in a non-holey cup and soaked 2 grams of dry alfalfa seed in one tablespoon of water for 4.5 hours each and randomized them before placing on their pedestals and covering them with the muslin bags:

After that, I drained them, replaced them on their pedestals, covered them with their bags...and waited. Because the weather was cold and damp (and because I had other things going on in my life) I only dunk-soaked the seeds once every two or three days, which seemed to be fine.

After about 15 days, on 11-13-25, I ended the experiment, and this is what one batch of sprouts looked like:

There didn't appear to be anything significant at all going on. But could my super-accurate scale pick up something that I couldn't see?

Well, these were the results from both the experiment on the right side of the workshop and on the left side (minus the weights of each cup that I weighed before starting this experiment):

Left side-Left Sample: 10.389 grams

Left side-Pyramid Sample: 9.817 grams

Left side-Right Sample: 10.196 grams

Right side-Left Sample: 10.589 grams

Right side-Pyramid Sample: 10.261 grams

Right side-Right Sample: 10.622 grams

The Pyramid Samples from both experiments had the lowest weights! Could it be from the dehydration effects that pyramids supposedly have? Very possibly.

I decided that in order to get a real accurate reading of the samples, and whether there was more organic matter in one sample or another, I needed to dry them out and weigh them again. So that is what I did, placing each batch of sprouts on some wax paper and putting them in my dehydrator:

And this is what they looked like after about 18 hours:

And a close up of the sprouts:

And here are their weights, subtracting the weight of the paper they were sitting upon:

Left side-Left Sample: 1.555 grams

Left side-Pyramid Sample: 1.532 grams

Left side-Right Sample: 1.516 grams

Right side-Left Sample: 1.592 grams

Right side-Pyramid Sample: 1.562 grams

Right side-Right Sample: 1.567 grams

These are completely random, statistically insignificant results. But I came to realize why. Under normal conditions, for a plant to grow, it needs sunlight, air, water, and soil. From these elements, it can pull minerals and nutrients from the soil and use the energy from sunlight to combine them with the air and the water to create things like cellulose, proteins, and starch. My little alfalfa sprouts had neither sunlight nor soil, so all they could do is transform the proteins and starches within the seeds into stems and leaves. But that is not going to make their weights any higher once dried out. In fact, the astute reader would have noticed that their dehydrated weights are actually less than the original weight of the dry alfalfa seeds, which started out at 2 grams. How could this be? Undoubtedly, the dry alfalfa seeds were not completely dry, but had a certain percentage of water within them; whereas, my dehydrator most likely dried out the sprouts to a lower moisture content level than the original seeds.

So it has become clear to me that continuing to do experiments like this will only result in random weights with no significance, as no matter how much the seed was transformed into a sprout, regardless of how much bigger is it than the original seed, its dry weight won't change.

So even though this realization came as a bit of a disappointment, and even though the results from this experiment were a bit "ho-hum," there was something interesting that did come out of it: The weights of the Pyramid Samples before being put into the dehydrator were less than the control samples in both experiments, and yet for the dry weights, only one of them was (just barely) the lightest, while the other one was in the middle. So perhaps there actually was some sort of dehydration effect going on with the pyramids, after all.

In my next experiment, I have decided to do a repeat of the MythBusters apple experiment--with some slight modifications. And one of those modifications will be to weigh the samples before and after the experiment to see if it can pick up any of these supposed dehydration effects.

Stay tuned.

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